components components components

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 31 October 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > * how depend from it? they are now in master, so kde 4.8. pa2 will
> > probably have to depend still from 4.7 -> i guess another kde-runtime
> > branch :/
> 
> that would really suck; at this point i'd almost like to see PA2 be just a
> patch release with the various improvements and fixes we're making in
> performance and stability and focus PA3 on a KDE Platform + Workspaces 4.8
> based release (or push hard for Frameworks 5?)

at this point agree: recommendations, speedup work and work on the nepomuk 
models is quite a lot already indeed for me..
it really sucks for me not having components tough because it slows things so 
much (and requires a *lot* of duplication in the qml inside plasma-mobile)

as general roadmap, i would see a pa3 around more features and preparing work 
for frameworks (like again, using components everywhere ;)

and then no more, pa5 all around frameworks, that means an hell lot of work 
has to happen in libplasma2

> 
> this is an installation issue, right? could we not install two copies of
> things, and just have one copy (and therefore no code-duplication) in the
> git repo? then the resolution could be automagic and hidden from the QML
> entirely, just as we do for in packages.

eerr, not so fast ;)
in packages, what i can fallback is a single file -only- when is accessed with 
plasmoid.package or the protocol, so for Image url, for importing javascript 
files (that are imported one by one) or in case of qml files, they come always 
in blocks, that's how the import keyword works.

so, in a plasmoid that has some files specific for say, tablets i cann do 

import "plasmapackage:/ui/foo" 1.0

in this case the whole foo directory is imported if it has a qmldir file 
listing each qml file.
it's not as pretty and smooth as i would love, but already lets do some neat 
things.

in the case of components, they are imported all in blocks, so
import org.kde.plasma.components 0.1 imports the whole giant  qml files set 
necomes availabel

and that needs a qmldir in that filder that lists each one

that's why i cannot fallback so graceously and probably need some hack on the 
qmldir file

Cheers, 
Marco Martin